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Offline rich_t

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Re: Why Not Pay People to NOT Work
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2009, 05:52:37 PM »
Unions do it.
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Re: Why Not Pay People to NOT Work
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2009, 06:02:26 PM »
Quote from: Happy Fun Ball on April 21, 2009, 05:42:30 PM
E) high inflation will devalue the very money that the government spends, so it must spend more to compensate, thus causing even more inflation.

F) with nothing of substance to back up the dollar, the government just keeps printing and spending money like there's no tomorrow and further increasing inflation and the debt. The dollar (or just about any paper money) isn't technically actual money, but a banknote; a contract of future payment with something more substantial, and eventually that debt will have to be repaid. And more dollars simply won't cut it then.

That right there is what happens, and if you want to see what it did in real life I happen to have a link I saw on Frugal Squirrel's. How to deal with inflated debt in Zimbabwe
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Re: Why Not Pay People to NOT Work
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2009, 06:04:49 PM »
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with nothing of substance to back up the dollar, the government just keeps printing and spending money like there's no tomorrow and further increasing inflation and the debt.

That's been going on here in the US since about 1913.

It gets a little worse after each election cycle regardless of what party is running things.
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Re: Why Not Pay People to NOT Work
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2009, 10:25:23 PM »
The kindest thing I can say about that idea is that it would probably work about as well as Obama's actual stimulus plan.
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Re: Why Not Pay People to NOT Work
« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2009, 11:35:13 AM »
Quote from: jukin on April 21, 2009, 04:25:11 PM
Stupid like that must hurt. 

Sadly, it does not, otherwise half the DUmp would be on a morphine drip.
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Re: Why Not Pay People to NOT Work
« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2009, 11:38:42 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on April 23, 2009, 10:25:23 PM
The kindest thing I can say about that idea is that it would probably work about as well as Obama's actual stimulus plan.

That bad, huh....

One of the MOST STUPID comments on the DUmmie post was this one: 
"This program would be paid for by cutting defense spending, raising corporate taxes on mega corporations (read WALMART), and closing tax loopholes."

1.  Liberals and DUmmies ALWAYS cut defense spending.  Over the years, Defense is the only budget item to have actually received less money, not just a "reduction in increase"....

2.  Just where in the Hell do corporations (mega or otherwise) get their money?  Newsflash, asshats!  Corporations DO NOT pay taxes!  They merely collect them....
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Re: Why Not Pay People to NOT Work
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2009, 01:31:53 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on April 26, 2009, 11:35:13 AM
Sadly, it does not, otherwise half the DUmp would be on a morphine drip.

Sparks, how do you know that they're not already?
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